"Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire."

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Source : Alex Comfort (1978). “A Good Age”, Simon & Schuster

Alex Comfort

#Retirement Quotes #Two Quotes #Week Quotes

“However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices.... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dillettantism.”
“Confine your kissing to the irresistible.”
“Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.”
“Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These relationships are complex and have long histories. Lifetime habits of avoiding being really present with each other may exist in many of them. Family members, for instance, might want to support you, but will not necessarily know how to genuinely listen or be present with you in a way that is enlivening. . . . Even with the best intentions, it can be very difficult to get beyond the past and into the Now.”
“If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?”
“Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.”
“Somtimes when you know the right thing to do, you simply have to do it, even though it breaks your heart.”

Source : Chris Fabry (2010). “Almost Heaven”, p.119, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“You can't do all the work, so surround yourself with people you trust; if this is your show then everything is ultimately your call, but the more faith you have in people who have proven to be capable, the more sane you get to be.”

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